Marcgravia schippii
Marcgravia schippii, described by Standley from William Schipp's Belize collections, is a root-climbing vine of lowland wet forest from Belize and Guatemala through Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama to Colombia. Most records are below 700 m, with the Osa Peninsula of Costa Rica heavily sampled; it wants a warm, very humid tank with a damp climbing wall.
Where it grows wild
Lowland and foothill tropical wet forest, climbing trunks in shade; occasionally up to 2000 m. Like the rest of the genus it is a root-climbing hemiepiphytic vine with two shoot forms: juvenile climbing shoots press small shingle leaves flat to bark or rock, and only mature free-hanging shoots carry the larger leaves and the pendent umbel with nectar-cup bracts. Growers keep it in the juvenile shingling stage on a damp vertical surface.
Records span 10-2000 m with a median of 300 m; it is mainly a lowland species.
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